Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager (CA-37) Delivers Inaugural House Floor Speech Protecting Abortion Rights

Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager gave her first speech on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, rising against Republicans’ latest attack on women’s reproductive freedom. In her speech, Congresswoman Kamlager called out this next step by House Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.

“We cannot continue to let the Republican party erode the rights of women across the country.

Congresswoman Kamlager said. “We have a responsibility to put an end to politicians inserting themselves into the doctors’ offices and uteruses of women across the country.”

Video of the entire speech can be found here along with a full transcript of her remarks below:

Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 26.

We didn’t hop in a time machine back to the 1970s.

It’s 2023 and we all know what this is about. 

It’s not the protection of newborn children.

It’s about control. 

It’s about Republicans’ continued desire to control women, take away their freedoms, limit their bodily autonomy, plunge poor women deeper into poverty and further marginalize those already not seen. 

It’s about intimidating, silencing, and criminalizing doctors.

It’s about the nationwide abortion ban that Republicans have been itching to enact since the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Bans that the American people have said loud and clearly that they do not want.

We cannot continue to let the extreme Republican party attack anderode the rights of women across the country. 

We have a responsibility to put an end to politicians inserting themselves into the doctors’ offices and uteruses of women across the country. 

I urge my colleagues to vote against this measure.

Thank you Madame Speaker, I yield back my time.